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Michael Graves, Ph.D.

Armerding Professor of Biblical Studies

On Faculty since 2004
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Hebrew Union College
M.Phil., Ph.D.

Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
M.A.

Wheaton College
B.A.

Messianic Exegesis in Isaiah according to Michael Servetus: Between Traditional Jewish and Christian Interpretations
Annual Meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies, December, 2023.

Translation Technique of Vulgate Daniel with reference to the Hebrew text and the Old Latin 
Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, November, 2023.

Interpreting Hebrew Rhetoric in Prophetic Literature: Greco-Latin and Arabic Models
Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, November, 2022.

Spiritual Exegesis of the Psalms in Jerome's Epistle 106
International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Salzburg, Austria, July, 2022.

Muslims and Christians in Jewish Commentaries on Daniel from the 10th-12th Centuries CE (4th-6th Centuries AH)
The Center for Muslim & Christian Studies Houston - Inaugural Conference: Daniel, Islam, Apocalyptic, 2022

Origen's Hexapla in Jerome's Epistle 106
Text & Canon Institute Phoenix - Colloquium: Origen as Philologist, 2021

Jesus in the Gospels as Teacher of Torah: A Christian Reflection in Conversation with Rabbinic Literature
Denver Seminary Biblical Studies Conference, 2020

The Gallican Psalter and the Hebrew: How the Original Can Influence a Secondary Version
Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, 2019

Pronoun Shifts in the Hebrew Bible and Qur'an
Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, 2019

Classical and Sacred Models for Jerome's Discourse on Translation
XVIII International Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford, 2019

Biblical Motifs in Ibn Isḥāq’s Life of Muhammad
Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical LIterature, 2017

 

  • Jerome, the Ancient Versions, and Old Testament Interpretation
  • Patristic Biblical Interpretation
  • Rabbinic Biblical Interpretation
  • Ancient Christian Exegesis and the Classical Tradition
  • The Bible and the Qur'an
  • Old Testament Textual Criticism
  • Elementary Hebrew (HEBR 301)
  • Elementary Hebrew II (HEBR 302)
  • Intermediate Hebrew (HEBR 401x)
  • Hebrew Exegesis (BITH 635)
  • Biblical and Targumic Aramaic (BITH 558)
  • Introduction to Syriac (BITH 695)
  • OT Literature and Interpretation (BITH 211)
  • Reading Scripture with the Church Fathers (BITH 327)
  • Ruth and Esther (BITH 332)
  • Exodus (BITH 341)
  • Judges (BITH 349)
  • Daniel (BITH 349)
  • The Qur'an and the Bible (BITH 377)
  • Jeremiah (BITH 433)
  • Minor Prophets (BITH 449/536)
  • Old Testament Criticism (BITH 431/541)
  • First Year Seminar: How Best Can We Help the Poor? (CORE 101)
  • Judaism (RELI 362)
  • Major World Religions (RELI 225)
  • Society of Biblical Literature
  • Association for Jewish Studies
  • North American Patristics Society
  • International Qur'anic Studies Association 

“Jerome's Principles of Biblical Translation in the Context of Classical and Sacred Ideals,” Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 100 (2024): 43-72.

“Origen's Hexapla in Jerome's Epistle 106,” in The Forerunners and Heirs of Origen’s Hexapla: The Proceedings of the Inaugural Colloquium of the Phoenix Seminary Text & Canon Institute, ed. J. Meade (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2024), 305-332.

“Interpreting Disaster and Culpability in the Book of Jeremiah,” Expository Times 133.8 (2022): 313-324.

“The Septuagint in the Latin World,” in The Oxford Handbook of the Septuagint, ed. A. Salvesen and T. M. Law (Oxford: OUP, 2021), 605-620.

“Exodus,” in The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Biblical Interpretation, eds. P. M. Blowers and P. Martens (Oxford: OUP, 2019), 547-560.

“The Upraised Mountain and Israel’s Election in the Qur’an and Talmud,” Comparative Islamic Studies 11.2 (2018): 141-177.

“Glimpses into the History of the Hebrew Bible Through the Vulgate Tradition, With Special Reference to Vulgate MS θG,” in The Text of the Hebrew Bible and Its Editions, eds. A. P. Otero and P. T. Morales, with A. Lange and J. Trebolle (Leiden: Brill, 2017), 217-254.

“Form Criticism or a Rolling Corpus: The Methodology of John Wansbrough through the Lens of Biblical Studies,” Journal of the International Qur'anic Studies Association 1 (2016): 47-92.

“Classic Rabbinic Perspectives,” in The T&T Clark Companion to the Doctrine of Sin, eds. K. L. Johnson and D. Lauber (London: T&T Clark, 2016), 129-147.

“The Composition of Isaiah in Jewish Tradition,” in Bind Up the Testimony: Explorations in the

Genesis of the Book of Isaiah, eds. D. I. Block and R. Schultz (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2015), 115-134.

“The Story of The Latin Bible and Questions About Biblical Translation for the Church Today,” Trinity Journal 35 NS (2014): 253-273.